A smiling face with tears, or “Tears of joy”, was chosen as the most popular emoji globally in 2016, according to a report（publish）by Chinese tech startup Kika.
In 2015,emoji was the country's fastest-growing language in the UK and “Tears of joy”also became the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year,（make）it popular on social media worldwide.
As a language expert pointed out, the reasonsthis are as follows. For one thing, with the development of the Internet, especially the （popular）of smartphones, English alone is proving not enough to meet the needs of 21st-century digital communication. Foremojis can offer greater freedom than verbal language. Meanwhile, compared with text messages, they are often more intuitive（直观的）and（simple）,which is also the reason why more and more People choose（express）their emotions and ideas by using emojis.
Even if you don't send emojis yourself, you will（probable）receive them.
However, nobody can definitely-tell emojis will finally come to look something more like traditional language that we understand and use daily some day or they are just in fashion forwhile like many things. “After all, it's an addition to language rather than a language itself,”Dr Drummond says.
